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The Trillion Dollar Conundrum : Complementarities and Health Information Technology
Dranove, David - 2012
We examine the relationship between the adoption of EMR and hospital operating costs. We first identify a puzzle that has been seen in prior studies: Adoption of EMR is associated with a slight cost increase. We draw on the literature on IT and productivity to demonstrate that the average effect...
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Ambulance Utilization in New York City after the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act
Courtemanche, Charles - 2018
dispatches for more severe injuries, dispatches for minor injuries rose sharply after the implementation of the ACA. By contrast …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453235
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Fifty Ways to Leave a Child Behind : Idiosyncrasies and Discrepancies in States' Implementation of NCLB
Davidson, Elizabeth - 2013
Yearly Progress. While the federal government's legislation provided a framework for NCLB implementation, it also gave states …% across states. In this paper, we explore how states' NCLB implementation decisions affected their schools' failure rates … characteristics like enrollment size, grade span, and ethnic diversity. Subtle differences in policy implementation led to dramatic …
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Information Technology and Patient Health : Analyzing Outcomes, Populations, and Mechanisms
Freedman, Seth - 2015
We study the effect of hospital adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs) on health outcomes, particularly patient safety indicators (PSIs). We find evidence of a positive impact of EMRs on PSIs via decision support rather than care coordination. Consistent with this mechanism, we find an...
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The Skill Complementarity of Broadband Internet
Akerman, Anders - 2015
Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? And is this technological change skill biased or factor neutral? We exploit rich Norwegian data to answer these questions. A public program with limited funding rolled out broadband access points, and...
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Technology and Production Fragmentation : Domestic versus Foreign Sourcing
Fort, Teresa C. - 2016
This paper provides direct empirical evidence on the relationship between technology and firms' global sourcing strategies. Using new data on U.S. firms' decisions to contract for manufacturing services from domestic or foreign suppliers, I show that a firm's adoption of communication technology...
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Inflation Targeting Does Not Anchor Inflation Expectations : Evidence from Firms in New Zealand
Kumar, Saten - 2015
We study the (lack of) anchoring of inflation expectations in New Zealand using a new survey of firms. Managers of these firms display little anchoring of inflation expectations, despite twenty-five years of inflation targeting by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, a fact which we document along a...
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Constraints on Large-Block Shareholders
Holderness, Clifford G. - 1998
Corporate managers who own a majority of the common stock in their company or who represent another firm owning such an interest appear to be less constrained than managers of diffusely held firms, yet their power to harm minority shareholders must be circumscribed by some organizational or...
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Policy Rules for Open Economies
Ball, Laurence - 1998
This paper examines the choice of a monetary-policy rule in a simple macroeconomic model. In a closed economy, the optimal policy is a output and inflation. In an open economy, the optimal rule changes in two ways. First, the policy instrument is a Conditions Index the exchange rate. Second, on...
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Inflation Targeting in Canada, New Zealand, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and in General
McCallum, Bennett T. - 1996
This paper begins with a description of the inflation targeting arrangements currently in place in the four above-mentioned countries and their performance records through mid-1995 are reviewed. It is argued, however, that too little time has passed for conclusions to be drawn, so that tentative...
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